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When the book first mentions blue jaunts, I was sort of confused. I mean, like when a prisoner tries to jaunt blindly, he just vanishes into thin air? This book is way too fictional for my taste.- Elias Taoufik<br>
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Response: Blue Jaunting is killing yourself they just disappear off the face of the earth and are never to be seen again :D - Cory Burchfield
Yeah, same here. I don't really understand what causes someone to "Blue Jaunte". Apparently they're blowing themselves up? It mentions explosions on page 72. Also it says, "Every sometime a guy gets fed up with old Jeffrey. Can't take it no more, him. Jauntes into the wild blue yonder." So if they try to jaunte in the dark, they blow up? But it says "Blue Jaunte into the dark...and we hear 'em exploding in the montains." Why do they go to the mountains? I'm not really understanding that. -Casey Pipetti<br>
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Yeah im not really understanding that either, but i think they just get so frustrated with their lives as they are, that they put so much power into a jaunt that their body cant handle it, that they explode.-John Benton<br>
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I was confused at first too, but then i relized it is just a sci-fi novel and anything goes- Michael Maher<br>
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I agree also, because even if a prisoner jaunts blindly why does that matter? If they can picture the place and think the corrdinates through why cant he go there? Why does he vanish or blow up? - Kaitlyn Back<br>
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im not sure but im thinking that this sanitation is longer than what a person can jaunt but i have no idea reall this book is starting to confuse me.=dustin gardner<br>
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And everybody thought I was an idiot when I said I couldn't concentrate on the book. I have to read every paragraph 2 or 3 times to get it through my head.- Nick Kratzer<br>
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i agree with this too. it just all seems too fake. If they picture the place, then how do they just vanish? it all doesnt really make sense to me. I cant make sense of alot of things with jaunting. - Haley Kline<br>
yeah i think that when someone blue jaunts they try to jaunte without any knowledge of where they are jaunting to so they dissappear and is never seen again. I think thats what that means but i could be wrong. So i agree with casey. -victor lemus.
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I think that when someone "Blue Jaunte's" that it like a suicide attempt because they know that they will just disappear. I think when they disappear, it is the same as dying in this world. THe prisoners just turn crazy from the darkness that they are ready to die. *Kayle Giarth*<br>
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i don't understand that either. this book is so confusing at times. i don't really get this jaunting thing. - jess koch<br>
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I thing that when it says 'exploding in the mountains' it just means that they can hear them far away. And I agree with Kayle. It could be a suicide attempt. - Kayla Knisley
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1. Pg.78-"Your repartee's improved; your speech, too. You've changed," Dagenham said. "Changed a sight too much and a sight too fast. I don't like it. Whats happened to you?" Gully has begun to change alot just by someone being in his life, making him listen. Jiz has to make him listen to her teach him English. By doing this she is showing him that the world doesn't revolve around him and him getting his revenge, and that there are other people in the world with feelings. I don't think anyone has ever done that to Gully before. Gully probably used to be someone well respect and thought of, never being told what to do. -Kathryn Yacobucci<br>
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I would like to point out the fact that yes she might be getting to him, but he could be just using her teaching him English as another tool to get his revenge realizing that he couldn't really fully communicate with everyone to get what he needs.-John Benton<br>
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I agree with Kathryn, Jiz's impression on Gully is definately a possitve and Gully is, in my opinion, a fast learner. Basically, Gully is now a child learning the ways of the world again. -Heather Gibson<br>
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A: Yes, Kathryn I agree with you, Since he has been out in space for such a long time he hasn't had someone to tell him what to do or how to behave. And he also hasn't had someone to talk to, so the way he speaks is off a little too so now he has to relearn basic speach and how to treat others and how to be around them, also by respecting others too. -- Jameson Holsinger :)<br>
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I agree with Kathryn and Heather. Gully has been learning much from Jiz and it shows that Gully may not be as slow and 'common-man' as we and other characters in the book as well think. -Tim Galbraith<br>
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2. pg. "You punish the brain, Gully. The brain sets the trap. Find out who was aboard Vorga. Find out who gave the order to pass you by. Punish him." I think that it's a bit unusual when Gully didnt know what Jiz was saying when she said this quote even though he got his ship to work and created so many things to save himself. She had to tell him what to do. How can he do things that are so complex but he can't think of something so simple as destroying the brain that made it pass him by instead of destroying the ship, Vorga, itself?- Ashlee Carson<br>
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A: I agree and he probably couldnt think of it himself because he continues to think that bombs are before brains and doesnt think reasonably anymore after being in jail for so long.-Mindy Hayton<br>
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A: I agree with this, if he could make a complex bomb, and put a ship back together, but he could't figure out that the person in the ship was the one who passed him up and not the ship itself. -Kyle Waite<br>
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I agree, he is very difficult at times. Hes having to be hand handle through everything, i think it is because he acts first. Jiz even had to teach him proper speach. Also I dont see why he started to go after the ship in the first place. Naturally wouldnt you want to get the person that gave the order to pass him up instead of the ship, the ship only carried out the order that it was given. I wouldnt have even thought of hurting the the ship if i was going to get revenge. Why would he think that getting rid of the ship would be revenge? I think Jiz in a way made the situation worse. Know instead of just hurting a ship, hes hurting a person. -Kathryn Yacobucci<br>
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I agree. I think since Gully was stuck in the Nomad for so long, his thinking had become irrational. Like Mr. Trimmer said, Gully can be related to an animal. For example, when someone who owns a dog uses a vaccum cleaner, the dog barks and is afraid of the vaccum, not realizing that it is only a machine and it is not alive; their owner is the one controlling it. -Casey Pipetti<br>
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Response: I like the example Casey used in this. She is right, dogs tend to bark at vacuums when in reality their owners are the one's controlling the vacuum. Gully is technically reacting the same way a dog does to a vacuum to Vorga. He is attacking Vorga when he should really be attacking the person flying Vorga that decided to pass him by. I think Jisbella can help him to understand this. - Danielle Heininger
i agree with ashlee. Gully is very hard to understand a lot of the time. although, i believe he's the sort of person who has little to no thought process with would make it hard for him to comprehend even the easiest things. however, i find it hard to understand why he wouldn't try to find the ship, just as kathryn said. he was so bent up about revenge on the Vorga so wouldn't it be a common thought to find the ship? -taylor cashdollar.<br>
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3. Page 71. " The cells that line the winding passages of Gouffre Martel are cut out of living rock. They are never illuminated. The passages are never illuminated." I thought that if you spent too long in pitch black, you would go blind. In that case, instead of getting better, the hospital would actually be bad for it's patients. -Bryant Sell<br>
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I disagree with you. I think if you were in pitch black your eyes would adjust to there being no light.- ALEX GEESEY<br>
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i agree with Alex. if you spend time in pitch black yourself your eyes adjust to the lighting. this is the same thing. your eyes would get used to it. - Jess Koch<br>
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4. Page 70 and 71. "Short of prefrontal lobotomy, there are only three ways to stop a man from jaunting:a blow to the head producing concussion, sedation which prevents concentration, and concealment of jaunte co-ordinates." Could this mean that Jaunting is harder than the author lead on. Also, from this statement the reader starts to disagree with the author's first view of Foyle. Could he possibly be smarter than we first learned. I think Gully is starting to reveal a more intelligent side to him and stray from not being the 'common man'. -Heather Gibson<br>
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5. Page 75. "You're like a wild beast trying to punish the trap the injured it." Mr. Trimmer mentioned earlier in class about the author comparing Gully with an animal. I personally thought he was snapping out of his old instinks and developing conscience. However, Jiz did have an excellent point about Gully's foolish attempt to blow up the ship Vorga and not trying to seek revenge on Vorga crew. So, maybe Gully will always have those beast-like instinks, deep down. -Heather Gibson<br>
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6. Pg. 76 "I'm an old hag, Gully. A hundred and five years old." She's not actually old, right? Is she just saying that because she thinks she's ugly? I think later on, like on page 90 it says "When dawn came, he saw that she was lovely: long and lean with smoky red hair and a generous mouth." I just wasn't sure why she would compare herself to an old hag if she's young. -Casey Pipetti<br>
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7. On page 70 they describe the Gouffre Martel, a formidable cavern hospital, as a place that is miles under the pyranees. It also says that no patient has ever been able to jaunt from Gouffre Martel. This place reminds me alot of Alcatraz because no one has been able to successfully escape Gouffre Martel or Alcatraz.- ALEX GEESEY<br>
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Response: I disagree with you Geesey there have been a cases that people have escaped Alcatraz. So i believe there is no such thing as a impentitrible prison because no matter what there is always a way out and or in, but Geesey a better example for a prison that no one has yet to escape is Super Max in Colorado -Skipper<br>
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Response 2: That is a better example to use, Skip but i like how Geesey linked them together. I think what Geesey was trying to say is that it was impossible to jaunt from Gouffre as it was nearly impossible Alcatraz. They were both dreaded imprisonments. - Joel Redfoot<br>
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8. Pg. 89 "They leaped to their feet, peering, listening, sniffing. The night was impenetrable, but they heard the soft sigh of night winds, and the sweet scent of green growing things came to their nostrails." This is when they first realize that they have succesfully broke out of Gouffre Martel. This is their frist glimps of outside world after being locked in the black depths of the prison. It is ironic that when they finally break out, they don't even know it because for them, they are still in the dark. They thought of the moment they breakout, they would see each other for the first time, but they can't. Their senses are overcome with the different scents and sounds of the night. *Kayle Giarth*<br>
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9. Pg 72. "Blue Jauntes. Every sometime a guy gets fed up with old Jefferey. Can't take it no more, him. Jauntes into the wild blue yonder." I believe that old Jefferey is Gouffre Martal and the Blue Jauntes are the people that jaunte to escape, but don't know where they are going therefore could be suicidal jauntes. Just to escape from Gouffre Martal which is a cruel dark prison. -Skipper<br>
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I agree and disagree with you on this Skip. Yes they could be suicidal jauntes but they could also not not be, since no one would obviously want to come back after they escape you are not sure if they have made it to their destination or not. No one in the prison would know if their jauntes could get them out because they might be to scared to try it because of the rumors that they explode after jaunting, and the people who have jaunted could have survived and be living somewhere undetected. -- Jameson Holsinger :)<br>
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I agree with you skipper, actually i underlined this in my book because i felt the same way. It seems like the people that perform the blue jauntes are so desperate to get out of the draining rooms of Gouffre Martal that they make suicidal jauntes. I also semidisagree with jameson's response because to perform a successful jaunte it requires the knowledge of the coordinates of the location one is jaunting from and since they had no idea where they resided at Gouffre Martal they must have known that "blue Jaunting" would be a suicidal act. ~nicole dengler
10. Pg.79 " I get access to Presteign's files, his shipping files" this is said by Gully whenever Dagenham and him are making another agreement. This agreement is very important gets hime closer to repaying the people that were on Vorga whenever he was abandoned by them.- Skipper<br>
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I agree with Skipper on this. If he would have agreed the rest of the book would be completely different. Sam Ellis<br>
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11. Pg.80 "It opened into a jaunte proof maze" I was confused whenever i read about a jaunte proof maze the first time I thought it was a maze that had a special material on it that could not allow people to jaunte through, but i believe it is a maze that makes people lost and unknown where they are so they could not cordinates to jaunte due to this.-Skipper<br>
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12.Pg. 75 "Learn to think, Gully. The head that could figure out how toget Nomad under way and how to put a bomb together ought to be able to figure that out. But no more bombs; brains instead." Jisabella is explaining that Gully is actually smart but should be able to understand that putting his brains first instead of blowing everything away with bombs can do alot more. Especially with the situation that they are about to endure when running from Gouffre Martel.-Mindy Hayton<br>
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I agree with you on this Mindy. I think she is trying to show him that if he thinks that he will think of something easier to do then blow something up with a bomb. -Nick Shrift<br>
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13. Pg. 75 "But you were a fool trying to blow up Vorga like that. You're like a wild beast trying to punish the trap that injured it. Steel isn't alive. It doesn't think. You can't punish Vorga." She telling him that he can't make stupid decisions like that and has to think before he does that stuff. -Nick Shrift<br>
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Response: Gully does need to start thinking before speaking. He has a problem with thinking before speaking and this was one of those times. He spoke out on what he wanted to do before ever really thinking about it. - Joel Redfoot<br>
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14. Pg 74. " A harem. A place where women are kept on ice. After a thousand years of civilization(it says here) we're still property." this shows that women have no rights in the book. They aren't allowed to jaunt because it can harm their value and virtue. -Kelsey Baker<br>
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- Kelsey, I agree with you. This line shows that woman then are treated really bad. - Megan Fanella<br>
Women aren't allowed to jaunt because it can harm their value and virtue. to an extent, this is showing that in a certain aspect, theyre protecting women, but also, it is showing that sexism, is going to never end. -taylor cashdollar
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15. pg. 71, "there are only three ways to stop a man from jaunting, the best being concealment." I dont really understand how locking someone up wouldbe able to stop someone from jaunting because its all in your mind. so what would your location have to do with that? i just don't really get that. -Haley Kline<br>
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-Thats exactly what I think Haley. I don't think people should be able to stop other people from jaunting because it is all in their minds. - Megan Fanella<br>
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16. when foyle is talking to himself is really going crazy or is he just planning somethin big in his own mind to keep him from going crazy?-dustin gardner<br>
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17. pg. 72 "dont know where they are, them. dont know where they're going. blue jaunt into the dark...and we hear em exploding in the mountains. boom! blue jaunt. I dont really understand this. does it just mean they are jaunting far off and he can hear them? -Haley Kline<br>
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18. Page 70-71. "...there are only a three ways to stop a man from jaunting: a blow on the head producing a concussion, sedation which prevents concentration, and concealment of jaunt co-ordinates." To me, I think that there could be other ways to stop a person from jaunting. These things all have to do with either like hurting a person or making them like stop thinking for a while. - Megan Fanella<br>
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19. page 75. " Did you notice anything worth salvaging from Nomad?" "No." Gully Foyle was trapped in space on a spaceship for almost six months. Whenever he was rescued and back on earth he said he didn't even want to save anything from the ship. I know if that was me, I would want to. - Megan Fanella<br>
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If people from the Gouffre Martel can't jaunte how do Gully and Jiz meet? -Kelsey Baker<br>
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20. page 84-85. "By God, we'll make it yet," Foyle mumbled. "I don't know if there's a way out, Gully." Jisbella was shaking with cold. "Maybe this is all cul-de-sac, walled off from the hospital." "There has to be a way out." "I don't know if we can find it." "We've got to find it. Let's go, girl." I think its interesting and funny how when they first met Jisbella was the incouraging one and wanted to find the way out and now shes second guessing herself and Foyle is stepping up and taking a risk. -Kaitlyn Black<br>
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21. "You don't know what jaunting's done to women, Gully. It's locked us up, sent us back to the seraglio. Jiz doesn't like how women are treated and thinks they should be able to jaunt with out getting in trouble. -Nick Shrift<br>
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I agree with Nick on his analysis of this quote. Women should not be punished for jaunting. If I were the writer, I would base things off of society in real life. Women received the right to do lots of things as time went on, and I think that women in this story should've receive these same exact rights as time expires in this book as well. -The man, the myth, the legend...Cullen Schimminger<br>
I agree and disagree with Cullen and Nick's statements. I agree that Women should not be punished for jaunting and Jiz should be able to jaunt, but if things were based off of events in today's society it wouldn't be a such compelling story. - The Tyler Slippy
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22. "Yeah. Surprise, surprise! Brains instead of bombs." This quote confuses me. I'm unsure of the reference that Gully is making with this quote. Is he referring to himself using the sledgehammer and comparing it to that of a bomb, or something else? If anyone else could collaborate on this, that would be great. -The man, the myth, the legend...Cullen Schimminger<br>
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23. On page 73 to 74 whenever Foyle starts talking and Jisbella McQueen answers i got confused. I don't really get the whisper line. I don't get how they can be talking to eachother whenever they are miles away and no one else can hear what they are saying. - Jess Koch<br>
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24. Pg 71. Whenever they have their occupational therapy i think they are making them go crazy. Making them believe something that isn't true. they are brainwashing them. - Jess Koch<br>
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25. "Maybe i am a damned fool. I got us trapped into this no- jaunte jam, and we're licked." I think that they are both trying to escape so bad that they aren't thinking ahead and how to get out without getting trapped. they need to clam down and think it through. - Jess Koch<br>
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26. Once again, I would just like to point out the fact that Foyle is just a common man, incapable of doing anything useful, destination: death. In fact, this common man is so incapable of doing anything that he was the ONLY person to ever escape from Gouffre Martel AND bring with him a friend... what a failure at life. I would really like to know what he did to get that label because it seems to me that the system they have of grouping people is just a little bit off... Janelle Meadows<br><br>27. Pg. 90 "Suddenly they became aware that they were nude, lying close, no longer separated. Jisbella fell silent but did not move. He clasped her, almost angrily, and enveloped her with a desire that was no less than hers. When dawn came, he saw that she was lovely: long and lean with smoky red hair and a generous mouth. But when dawn came, she saw his face." I'm wondering if this is going to change their relationship, and the story. -<font class="Apple-style-span" size="7">The <i>great</i> Tyler Slippy</font><br>
Response: I don't think seeing his face will make much of a difference in their relationship. I mean they talked through the whisper line, never seeing each other. She said she thought they were falling in love, yet they had never seen each other. So what I'm getting from this is that she fell in love with his personality. She's never seen him and didn't fall in love with his looks, so I don't see why his face would change the way she feels about him. - Danielle Heininger
27. pg.70-72 The narrator tells about Gouffre Martel in France. It's an undergound imprisonment that no person has ever jaunted out of. The cells are made from living stone.Throughout the entire prison, it is pitchblack except for a select couple of rooms. The average day in Gouffre Martel consists of a bell waking everyone at 8 o' clock (or any hour since they don't know time) and being served their morning meals, which the plates and cups dissolved in 15 minutes. At:30 their cell doors opened ad they were sent to sanitation, where they were washed, shaved, irradiated, disinfected, dosed, and ioculated then given new uniforms. While this happend, their cells were auctomatically cleaned out. The through lectures the rest of the morning. And in the afternoon, they had occupational therapy in which they used 3-D tvs to motion remote controls in in the work shops.
Pg. 71 Gully finds a Whisper Line through which he talks to a female in the prison. Only the two can hear each other. Her name is Jisbella McQueen. Gully and Jiz fall in love and one day when Dagenham visits Gully, he choked Dagenham unconcious, went to find Jiz and then they both escaped through a long and complicated attempt. They escaped through an undregraound river that led to the outside.
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I just like this chapter. It seems weird to say but I like that Gully is finally finding someone that he can talk to and make him less crazy. This story has also just got more interesting because I didnt really understand it fully in the beginning but now im starting to :). Im hoping Jiz and Gully fall in love and get to stay with eachother throughout the whole story.-Cory Burchfield
Pg. 86 "Gully, your insane." Since Gully came and saved Jiz you'd think she would be very happy to get out of her cell and away but she seemed be think Gully Foyle is crazy for attempting to save them. Or maybe she was just stunded that Gully would think of coming back and saving her. -victor lemus.
RE: I agree with Victor. If I were trapped in a prison without sight and not able to tell wat i'm touching or what i'm doing, I would want to get out of there. But it seems that she is scared to try to escape and thinks that Gully is insane for trying to. - Sasha Cochran
When the book first mentions blue jaunts, I was sort of confused. I mean, like when a prisoner tries to jaunt blindly, he just vanishes into thin air? This book is way too fictional for my taste.- Elias Taoufik<br>
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Response: Blue Jaunting is killing yourself they just disappear off the face of the earth and are never to be seen again :D - Cory Burchfield
Yeah, same here. I don't really understand what causes someone to "Blue Jaunte". Apparently they're blowing themselves up? It mentions explosions on page 72. Also it says, "Every sometime a guy gets fed up with old Jeffrey. Can't take it no more, him. Jauntes into the wild blue yonder." So if they try to jaunte in the dark, they blow up? But it says "Blue Jaunte into the dark...and we hear 'em exploding in the montains." Why do they go to the mountains? I'm not really understanding that. -Casey Pipetti<br>
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Yeah im not really understanding that either, but i think they just get so frustrated with their lives as they are, that they put so much power into a jaunt that their body cant handle it, that they explode.-John Benton<br>
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I was confused at first too, but then i relized it is just a sci-fi novel and anything goes- Michael Maher<br>
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I agree also, because even if a prisoner jaunts blindly why does that matter? If they can picture the place and think the corrdinates through why cant he go there? Why does he vanish or blow up? - Kaitlyn Back<br>
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im not sure but im thinking that this sanitation is longer than what a person can jaunt but i have no idea reall this book is starting to confuse me.=dustin gardner<br>
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And everybody thought I was an idiot when I said I couldn't concentrate on the book. I have to read every paragraph 2 or 3 times to get it through my head.- Nick Kratzer<br>
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i agree with this too. it just all seems too fake. If they picture the place, then how do they just vanish? it all doesnt really make sense to me. I cant make sense of alot of things with jaunting. - Haley Kline<br>
yeah i think that when someone blue jaunts they try to jaunte without any knowledge of where they are jaunting to so they dissappear and is never seen again. I think thats what that means but i could be wrong. So i agree with casey. -victor lemus.
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I think that when someone "Blue Jaunte's" that it like a suicide attempt because they know that they will just disappear. I think when they disappear, it is the same as dying in this world. THe prisoners just turn crazy from the darkness that they are ready to die. *Kayle Giarth*<br>
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i don't understand that either. this book is so confusing at times. i don't really get this jaunting thing. - jess koch<br>
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I thing that when it says 'exploding in the mountains' it just means that they can hear them far away. And I agree with Kayle. It could be a suicide attempt. - Kayla Knisley
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1. Pg.78-"Your repartee's improved; your speech, too. You've changed," Dagenham said. "Changed a sight too much and a sight too fast. I don't like it. Whats happened to you?" Gully has begun to change alot just by someone being in his life, making him listen. Jiz has to make him listen to her teach him English. By doing this she is showing him that the world doesn't revolve around him and him getting his revenge, and that there are other people in the world with feelings. I don't think anyone has ever done that to Gully before. Gully probably used to be someone well respect and thought of, never being told what to do. -Kathryn Yacobucci<br>
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I would like to point out the fact that yes she might be getting to him, but he could be just using her teaching him English as another tool to get his revenge realizing that he couldn't really fully communicate with everyone to get what he needs.-John Benton<br>
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I agree with Kathryn, Jiz's impression on Gully is definately a possitve and Gully is, in my opinion, a fast learner. Basically, Gully is now a child learning the ways of the world again. -Heather Gibson<br>
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A: Yes, Kathryn I agree with you, Since he has been out in space for such a long time he hasn't had someone to tell him what to do or how to behave. And he also hasn't had someone to talk to, so the way he speaks is off a little too so now he has to relearn basic speach and how to treat others and how to be around them, also by respecting others too. -- Jameson Holsinger :)<br>
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I agree with Kathryn and Heather. Gully has been learning much from Jiz and it shows that Gully may not be as slow and 'common-man' as we and other characters in the book as well think. -Tim Galbraith<br>
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2. pg. "You punish the brain, Gully. The brain sets the trap. Find out who was aboard Vorga. Find out who gave the order to pass you by. Punish him." I think that it's a bit unusual when Gully didnt know what Jiz was saying when she said this quote even though he got his ship to work and created so many things to save himself. She had to tell him what to do. How can he do things that are so complex but he can't think of something so simple as destroying the brain that made it pass him by instead of destroying the ship, Vorga, itself?- Ashlee Carson<br>
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A: I agree and he probably couldnt think of it himself because he continues to think that bombs are before brains and doesnt think reasonably anymore after being in jail for so long.-Mindy Hayton<br>
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A: I agree with this, if he could make a complex bomb, and put a ship back together, but he could't figure out that the person in the ship was the one who passed him up and not the ship itself. -Kyle Waite<br>
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I agree, he is very difficult at times. Hes having to be hand handle through everything, i think it is because he acts first. Jiz even had to teach him proper speach. Also I dont see why he started to go after the ship in the first place. Naturally wouldnt you want to get the person that gave the order to pass him up instead of the ship, the ship only carried out the order that it was given. I wouldnt have even thought of hurting the the ship if i was going to get revenge. Why would he think that getting rid of the ship would be revenge? I think Jiz in a way made the situation worse. Know instead of just hurting a ship, hes hurting a person. -Kathryn Yacobucci<br>
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I agree. I think since Gully was stuck in the Nomad for so long, his thinking had become irrational. Like Mr. Trimmer said, Gully can be related to an animal. For example, when someone who owns a dog uses a vaccum cleaner, the dog barks and is afraid of the vaccum, not realizing that it is only a machine and it is not alive; their owner is the one controlling it. -Casey Pipetti<br>
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Response: I like the example Casey used in this. She is right, dogs tend to bark at vacuums when in reality their owners are the one's controlling the vacuum. Gully is technically reacting the same way a dog does to a vacuum to Vorga. He is attacking Vorga when he should really be attacking the person flying Vorga that decided to pass him by. I think Jisbella can help him to understand this. - Danielle Heininger
i agree with ashlee. Gully is very hard to understand a lot of the time. although, i believe he's the sort of person who has little to no thought process with would make it hard for him to comprehend even the easiest things. however, i find it hard to understand why he wouldn't try to find the ship, just as kathryn said. he was so bent up about revenge on the Vorga so wouldn't it be a common thought to find the ship? -taylor cashdollar.<br>
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3. Page 71. " The cells that line the winding passages of Gouffre Martel are cut out of living rock. They are never illuminated. The passages are never illuminated." I thought that if you spent too long in pitch black, you would go blind. In that case, instead of getting better, the hospital would actually be bad for it's patients. -Bryant Sell<br>
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I disagree with you. I think if you were in pitch black your eyes would adjust to there being no light.- ALEX GEESEY<br>
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i agree with Alex. if you spend time in pitch black yourself your eyes adjust to the lighting. this is the same thing. your eyes would get used to it. - Jess Koch<br>
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4. Page 70 and 71. "Short of prefrontal lobotomy, there are only three ways to stop a man from jaunting:a blow to the head producing concussion, sedation which prevents concentration, and concealment of jaunte co-ordinates." Could this mean that Jaunting is harder than the author lead on. Also, from this statement the reader starts to disagree with the author's first view of Foyle. Could he possibly be smarter than we first learned. I think Gully is starting to reveal a more intelligent side to him and stray from not being the 'common man'. -Heather Gibson<br>
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5. Page 75. "You're like a wild beast trying to punish the trap the injured it." Mr. Trimmer mentioned earlier in class about the author comparing Gully with an animal. I personally thought he was snapping out of his old instinks and developing conscience. However, Jiz did have an excellent point about Gully's foolish attempt to blow up the ship Vorga and not trying to seek revenge on Vorga crew. So, maybe Gully will always have those beast-like instinks, deep down. -Heather Gibson<br>
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6. Pg. 76 "I'm an old hag, Gully. A hundred and five years old." She's not actually old, right? Is she just saying that because she thinks she's ugly? I think later on, like on page 90 it says "When dawn came, he saw that she was lovely: long and lean with smoky red hair and a generous mouth." I just wasn't sure why she would compare herself to an old hag if she's young. -Casey Pipetti<br>
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7. On page 70 they describe the Gouffre Martel, a formidable cavern hospital, as a place that is miles under the pyranees. It also says that no patient has ever been able to jaunt from Gouffre Martel. This place reminds me alot of Alcatraz because no one has been able to successfully escape Gouffre Martel or Alcatraz.- ALEX GEESEY<br>
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Response: I disagree with you Geesey there have been a cases that people have escaped Alcatraz. So i believe there is no such thing as a impentitrible prison because no matter what there is always a way out and or in, but Geesey a better example for a prison that no one has yet to escape is Super Max in Colorado -Skipper<br>
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Response 2: That is a better example to use, Skip but i like how Geesey linked them together. I think what Geesey was trying to say is that it was impossible to jaunt from Gouffre as it was nearly impossible Alcatraz. They were both dreaded imprisonments. - Joel Redfoot<br>
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8. Pg. 89 "They leaped to their feet, peering, listening, sniffing. The night was impenetrable, but they heard the soft sigh of night winds, and the sweet scent of green growing things came to their nostrails." This is when they first realize that they have succesfully broke out of Gouffre Martel. This is their frist glimps of outside world after being locked in the black depths of the prison. It is ironic that when they finally break out, they don't even know it because for them, they are still in the dark. They thought of the moment they breakout, they would see each other for the first time, but they can't. Their senses are overcome with the different scents and sounds of the night. *Kayle Giarth*<br>
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9. Pg 72. "Blue Jauntes. Every sometime a guy gets fed up with old Jefferey. Can't take it no more, him. Jauntes into the wild blue yonder." I believe that old Jefferey is Gouffre Martal and the Blue Jauntes are the people that jaunte to escape, but don't know where they are going therefore could be suicidal jauntes. Just to escape from Gouffre Martal which is a cruel dark prison. -Skipper<br>
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I agree and disagree with you on this Skip. Yes they could be suicidal jauntes but they could also not not be, since no one would obviously want to come back after they escape you are not sure if they have made it to their destination or not. No one in the prison would know if their jauntes could get them out because they might be to scared to try it because of the rumors that they explode after jaunting, and the people who have jaunted could have survived and be living somewhere undetected. -- Jameson Holsinger :)<br>
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I agree with you skipper, actually i underlined this in my book because i felt the same way. It seems like the people that perform the blue jauntes are so desperate to get out of the draining rooms of Gouffre Martal that they make suicidal jauntes. I also semidisagree with jameson's response because to perform a successful jaunte it requires the knowledge of the coordinates of the location one is jaunting from and since they had no idea where they resided at Gouffre Martal they must have known that "blue Jaunting" would be a suicidal act. ~nicole dengler
10. Pg.79 " I get access to Presteign's files, his shipping files" this is said by Gully whenever Dagenham and him are making another agreement. This agreement is very important gets hime closer to repaying the people that were on Vorga whenever he was abandoned by them.- Skipper<br>
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I agree with Skipper on this. If he would have agreed the rest of the book would be completely different. Sam Ellis<br>
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11. Pg.80 "It opened into a jaunte proof maze" I was confused whenever i read about a jaunte proof maze the first time I thought it was a maze that had a special material on it that could not allow people to jaunte through, but i believe it is a maze that makes people lost and unknown where they are so they could not cordinates to jaunte due to this.-Skipper<br>
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12.Pg. 75 "Learn to think, Gully. The head that could figure out how toget Nomad under way and how to put a bomb together ought to be able to figure that out. But no more bombs; brains instead." Jisabella is explaining that Gully is actually smart but should be able to understand that putting his brains first instead of blowing everything away with bombs can do alot more. Especially with the situation that they are about to endure when running from Gouffre Martel.-Mindy Hayton<br>
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I agree with you on this Mindy. I think she is trying to show him that if he thinks that he will think of something easier to do then blow something up with a bomb. -Nick Shrift<br>
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13. Pg. 75 "But you were a fool trying to blow up Vorga like that. You're like a wild beast trying to punish the trap that injured it. Steel isn't alive. It doesn't think. You can't punish Vorga." She telling him that he can't make stupid decisions like that and has to think before he does that stuff. -Nick Shrift<br>
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Response: Gully does need to start thinking before speaking. He has a problem with thinking before speaking and this was one of those times. He spoke out on what he wanted to do before ever really thinking about it. - Joel Redfoot<br>
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14. Pg 74. " A harem. A place where women are kept on ice. After a thousand years of civilization(it says here) we're still property." this shows that women have no rights in the book. They aren't allowed to jaunt because it can harm their value and virtue. -Kelsey Baker<br>
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- Kelsey, I agree with you. This line shows that woman then are treated really bad. - Megan Fanella<br>
Women aren't allowed to jaunt because it can harm their value and virtue. to an extent, this is showing that in a certain aspect, theyre protecting women, but also, it is showing that sexism, is going to never end. -taylor cashdollar
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15. pg. 71, "there are only three ways to stop a man from jaunting, the best being concealment." I dont really understand how locking someone up wouldbe able to stop someone from jaunting because its all in your mind. so what would your location have to do with that? i just don't really get that. -Haley Kline<br>
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-Thats exactly what I think Haley. I don't think people should be able to stop other people from jaunting because it is all in their minds. - Megan Fanella<br>
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16. when foyle is talking to himself is really going crazy or is he just planning somethin big in his own mind to keep him from going crazy?-dustin gardner<br>
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17. pg. 72 "dont know where they are, them. dont know where they're going. blue jaunt into the dark...and we hear em exploding in the mountains. boom! blue jaunt. I dont really understand this. does it just mean they are jaunting far off and he can hear them? -Haley Kline<br>
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18. Page 70-71. "...there are only a three ways to stop a man from jaunting: a blow on the head producing a concussion, sedation which prevents concentration, and concealment of jaunt co-ordinates." To me, I think that there could be other ways to stop a person from jaunting. These things all have to do with either like hurting a person or making them like stop thinking for a while. - Megan Fanella<br>
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19. page 75. " Did you notice anything worth salvaging from Nomad?" "No." Gully Foyle was trapped in space on a spaceship for almost six months. Whenever he was rescued and back on earth he said he didn't even want to save anything from the ship. I know if that was me, I would want to. - Megan Fanella<br>
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If people from the Gouffre Martel can't jaunte how do Gully and Jiz meet? -Kelsey Baker<br>
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20. page 84-85. "By God, we'll make it yet," Foyle mumbled. "I don't know if there's a way out, Gully." Jisbella was shaking with cold. "Maybe this is all cul-de-sac, walled off from the hospital." "There has to be a way out." "I don't know if we can find it." "We've got to find it. Let's go, girl." I think its interesting and funny how when they first met Jisbella was the incouraging one and wanted to find the way out and now shes second guessing herself and Foyle is stepping up and taking a risk. -Kaitlyn Black<br>
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21. "You don't know what jaunting's done to women, Gully. It's locked us up, sent us back to the seraglio. Jiz doesn't like how women are treated and thinks they should be able to jaunt with out getting in trouble. -Nick Shrift<br>
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I agree with Nick on his analysis of this quote. Women should not be punished for jaunting. If I were the writer, I would base things off of society in real life. Women received the right to do lots of things as time went on, and I think that women in this story should've receive these same exact rights as time expires in this book as well. -The man, the myth, the legend...Cullen Schimminger<br>
I agree and disagree with Cullen and Nick's statements. I agree that Women should not be punished for jaunting and Jiz should be able to jaunt, but if things were based off of events in today's society it wouldn't be a such compelling story. - The Tyler Slippy
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22. "Yeah. Surprise, surprise! Brains instead of bombs." This quote confuses me. I'm unsure of the reference that Gully is making with this quote. Is he referring to himself using the sledgehammer and comparing it to that of a bomb, or something else? If anyone else could collaborate on this, that would be great. -The man, the myth, the legend...Cullen Schimminger<br>
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23. On page 73 to 74 whenever Foyle starts talking and Jisbella McQueen answers i got confused. I don't really get the whisper line. I don't get how they can be talking to eachother whenever they are miles away and no one else can hear what they are saying. - Jess Koch<br>
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24. Pg 71. Whenever they have their occupational therapy i think they are making them go crazy. Making them believe something that isn't true. they are brainwashing them. - Jess Koch<br>
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25. "Maybe i am a damned fool. I got us trapped into this no- jaunte jam, and we're licked." I think that they are both trying to escape so bad that they aren't thinking ahead and how to get out without getting trapped. they need to clam down and think it through. - Jess Koch<br>
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26. Once again, I would just like to point out the fact that Foyle is just a common man, incapable of doing anything useful, destination: death. In fact, this common man is so incapable of doing anything that he was the ONLY person to ever escape from Gouffre Martel AND bring with him a friend... what a failure at life. I would really like to know what he did to get that label because it seems to me that the system they have of grouping people is just a little bit off... Janelle Meadows<br><br>27. Pg. 90 "Suddenly they became aware that they were nude, lying close, no longer separated. Jisbella fell silent but did not move. He clasped her, almost angrily, and enveloped her with a desire that was no less than hers. When dawn came, he saw that she was lovely: long and lean with smoky red hair and a generous mouth. But when dawn came, she saw his face." I'm wondering if this is going to change their relationship, and the story. -<font class="Apple-style-span" size="7">The <i>great</i> Tyler Slippy</font><br>
Response: I don't think seeing his face will make much of a difference in their relationship. I mean they talked through the whisper line, never seeing each other. She said she thought they were falling in love, yet they had never seen each other. So what I'm getting from this is that she fell in love with his personality. She's never seen him and didn't fall in love with his looks, so I don't see why his face would change the way she feels about him. - Danielle Heininger
27. pg.70-72 The narrator tells about Gouffre Martel in France. It's an undergound imprisonment that no person has ever jaunted out of. The cells are made from living stone.Throughout the entire prison, it is pitchblack except for a select couple of rooms. The average day in Gouffre Martel consists of a bell waking everyone at 8 o' clock (or any hour since they don't know time) and being served their morning meals, which the plates and cups dissolved in 15 minutes. At:30 their cell doors opened ad they were sent to sanitation, where they were washed, shaved, irradiated, disinfected, dosed, and ioculated then given new uniforms. While this happend, their cells were auctomatically cleaned out. The through lectures the rest of the morning. And in the afternoon, they had occupational therapy in which they used 3-D tvs to motion remote controls in in the work shops.
Pg. 71 Gully finds a Whisper Line through which he talks to a female in the prison. Only the two can hear each other. Her name is Jisbella McQueen. Gully and Jiz fall in love and one day when Dagenham visits Gully, he choked Dagenham unconcious, went to find Jiz and then they both escaped through a long and complicated attempt. They escaped through an undregraound river that led to the outside.
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I just like this chapter. It seems weird to say but I like that Gully is finally finding someone that he can talk to and make him less crazy. This story has also just got more interesting because I didnt really understand it fully in the beginning but now im starting to :). Im hoping Jiz and Gully fall in love and get to stay with eachother throughout the whole story.-Cory Burchfield
Pg. 86 "Gully, your insane." Since Gully came and saved Jiz you'd think she would be very happy to get out of her cell and away but she seemed be think Gully Foyle is crazy for attempting to save them. Or maybe she was just stunded that Gully would think of coming back and saving her. -victor lemus.
RE: I agree with Victor. If I were trapped in a prison without sight and not able to tell wat i'm touching or what i'm doing, I would want to get out of there. But it seems that she is scared to try to escape and thinks that Gully is insane for trying to. - Sasha Cochran